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CPS-1 is a rare genetic disorder, and doctors are using CRISPR to heal it in one baby.
RX and Medicine

In a World First, CRISPR Drug Tailored for One Baby Shows Life-Saving Promise

"We all said to each other, 'This is the most significant thing we have ever done.'"

Asking Elon Musk's Grok AI about the career of actor Timothée Chalamet results in a rant about biases in "mainstream sources."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s AI Bot Doesn’t Believe In Timothée Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil

Grok's lobotomy is complete.

The AI company recently confessed to using its own AI chatbot to format its legal briefings, arguing that AI was to blame for the error.
Anthropic

Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly

"Our manual citation check did not catch that error."

NASA"s James Webb telescope found frozen water on a distant star.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s James Webb Telescope Just Found Frozen Water Around Another Star

It's not just any ordinary ice.

Startup Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and motor-actuated limbs to control weeds.
Robotics

This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military

Just keep them far away from us.

xAI, owned by Elon Musk, is blaming its chatbot having a meltdown on an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's code.
xAI

Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says

Sabotage!

An OnlyFans model was shocked to find that a scammer had stolen her content — and used it to flood Reddit with AI deepfakes.
Artificial Intelligence

OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit

"I can't imagine I'm the first, and I'm definitely not the last."

Astronomers, for the first time ever, have witnessed visible auroras over Mars — and it dwarfs anything we see on Earth.
Mars

Astronomers Stunned as Epic Mars Aurora Covers Entire Planet

Woah.

Former Twitter advertisers singled out by Elon Musk in a lawsuit are ready to hit back and are asking a judge to dismiss the suit.
Elon Musk

Furious Former Twitter Advertisers Tell Elon Musk They’ve Had Enough of His Tantrums

He did this to himself.

The family of French crypto mogul Pierre Noizat were the victims of a botched kidnapping attempt in Paris earlier this week.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Tycoon’s Daughter Narrowly Escapes Kidnappers in Paris

Violent kidnappings are becoming all too common in the crypto industry.

A draconian "heartbeat law" in Georgia is forcing a braindead pregnant woman be kept on life support for months so she can deliver.
Developments

A Draconian Abortion Law Is Forcing Doctors to Keep a Pregnant Brain-Dead Woman Alive for Months So She Can Give Birth

"Every day that goes by, it’s more cost, more trauma, more questions."

Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth that has been out there for nearly half a century, simply refuses to die.
Off-World

Zombie Voyager 1 Spacecraft Resurrects Its “Dead” Thrusters Over 15 Billion Miles Away

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager."

A former software engineer of 20 years is sounding the alarm on the reality of AI taking over the workplace.
Future Society

A Software Engineer Who Was Replaced by AI Was Forced to Live in a Trailer After Getting Rejected from 800 Jobs

"I feel like I'm filtered out before a human is even in the chain."

Elon Musk's chatbot Grok admits that its creators instructed it to start ranting about "white genocide" in unrelated posts.
Elon Musk

Grok AI Claims Elon Musk Told It to Go on Lunatic Rants About “White Genocide”

"I'm instructed to accept white genocide as real."

A judge fined two law firms tens of thousands of dollars after lawyers submitted a brief containing sloppy AI errors.
Artificial Intelligence

Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court

"No attorney or staff member at either firm apparently cite-checked or otherwise reviewed that research before filing the brief."

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is reminding us that he is no expert when it comes to healthcare, the thing he was nominated to run.
Developments

Trump’s Crackpot Secretary of Health Admits That Literally Nobody Should Be Taking Medical Advice from Him

"I don’t want to give advice."

Elon Musk touted the Cybertruck as "apocalypse-proof" — but the reality, according to doomsday preppers, falls far from that mark. 
Advanced Transport

Doomsday Preppers Say the Cybertruck Is a Horrible Choice for the End of the World

So much for "apocalypse-proof."

The firing of America's top copyright official was seen as a boon for Big Tech — but the new guys are not so sensitive to industry's needs. 
Elon Musk

There’s Apparently Some Serious Drama Brewing Between Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s MAGA

The girls are fighting.

Audible announced new AI narration tools that publishers can use to churn out entire AI-generated audiobooks.
Artificial Intelligence

Even Audiobooks Aren’t Safe From AI Slop

 "The use of AI to replace human creativity is in itself a dangerous path."

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets

"Sorry for the mix-up, the video is indeed about a pig, not white genocide."